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Number of international visitors to Luc Ngan on ripening lychee season sharply increase
BAC GIANG - Thanks to active introduction and promotion, the number of international visitors coming to experience the ripening lychee season in Luc Ngan district (Bac Giang province) this year has increased sharply.
According to the Luc Ngan district Division of Culture and Information, since early lychee season, the district has welcomed more than 40 international delegations from different countries like China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, France, Australia and the United States together with overseas Vietnamese returning to visit relatives and travel to the lychee area with a total of more than 600 people. The number of groups and international tourists doubled the figure last year.
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Indonesian and Malaysian tourists enjoy their first visit to the Luc Ngan lychee area. |
Previously, most of international visitors to Luc Ngan lychee area come from China. This year, in addition to international tourists coming to Luc Ngan on tours organized by travel businesses, the destination also welcomes foreign experts from Japan, Taiwan (China) and Korea who are working in industrial parks of Bac Giang and many localities such as Bac Ninh, Hanoi...
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A group of French tourists visits and tastes lychees at a garden in Hong Giang commune. |
The above results are achieved thanks to joint efforts of the growers to improve the lychee quality and the District Tourism Development Steering Committee to actively propagate and promote Luc Ngan tourism, culture and people through various mass media.
Besides, the local gardeners and tourism cooperatives have actively invested in renovating and beautifying the landscape, decorating gardens and yards attractively, and well preparing the necessary conditions to welcome tourists.
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Japanese tourists check in at a lychee garden in Tan Moc commune. |
Luc Ngan expects to welcome about 250,000 tourist arrivals on this year lychee season, including 5,500 international visitors, up 30% compared to the 2023 lychee crop.
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BAC GIANG – It is now harvest season of Bac Giang lychee. Although this year's output has decreased compared to last year, due to the short harvest time, gardeners and traders need to mobilize more seasonal workers. Many people can earn from a few hundred thousand VND to millions of VND every day from harvesting, packing, loading and unloading, weighing and choosing the fruits.
BAC GIANG- The total lychee output in the northern province of Bac Giang is estimated at 100,000 tonnes this year. In order to protect prestige of Bac Giang lychee trademark in domestic and export markets, the agricultural sector together with gardeners, firms and cooperatives has attached importance to production and improving the product quality.
Two tonnes of fresh Vietnamese lychees, meeting GlobalGAP standards, arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on May 28, marking the first shipment of this year's crop.
As the hub of early maturing lychee in Vietnam, Tan Yen District in the northern province of Bac Giang is expected to harvest approximately 15,000 tonnes of lychee this season despite unfavourable weather and declining productivity.
BAC GIANG - On May 27, the People's Committee in Tan Yen district (Bac Giang province) organized a conference to connect and promote consumption of early ripening lychees in 2024 at the cultural house of Ca Am village.
BAC GIANG – Though this year lychee crop is not as bumper as previous seasons, Bac Giang province has proactively prepared consumption promotion plan together with maintaining traditional markets, expanding new markets in order to increase the product value. Along with instructions to improve the quality of lychees, all levels, sectors and localities have launched activities to connect and bring local special fruit further.
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